In Portuguese we use the word vaquinha, which means little cow, to refer to a group of people contributing money for some common goal. In a meeting of the organization of the DebConf12 BID of Belo Horizonte, I, Rafael, Régis and Samuel decided to create a vaquinha to become a sponsor of DebConf11. With the help of Amazing Valéssio, we created a website and we are collecting donations. The idea is simple: people donate and their name is shown on the website. If they give more than R$50,00, they also receive an exclusive T-shirt. We mixed the idea of vaquinha with the Super Cow Powers from APT. The site is only in Portuguese, since our main focus is to ask for donations from brazilians, but nothing stops foreigns from donating. Our plan is to become Bronze Sponsors, but if we can't all that money, we'll just give to DebConf11 whatever we have. I hope you like the idea, and maybe have a similar initative in your country.